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Chapter 931 Terrible Manchester City
As Ferguson said, Manchester United has always been a very offensive team.

Red devils, red devils, if you are not crazy, you will not survive.

Manchester United has always been known for its offensive football. Even in some strong dialogues, Manchester United played absolutely conservatively. It was when facing Barcelona and Manchester City's passing and possession style that Manchester United had to compromise.

Ferguson was a pragmatist after all.

But tonight, in the Manchester derby, when Manchester City scored in less than a minute, Manchester United still performed very bloody, especially the group of young boys in the midfield tried to launch a counterattack.

There is a good saying, hot-blooded young man, welcome to Manchester United.

Ferguson just liked young players with drive and drive like Phil Jones, Ashley Young and Nani.

Manchester United, who made a big counterattack, took the initiative to avoid Manchester City's center, but gathered more on the two wings.

Ashley Young and Nani played very active on the two sides, but after the penalty area reached the 30-meter area, they encountered a problem, that is, how to transfer the ball from the side to the center?
Use a cross from the side?

Come on, this is an outdated tactic that has already been eliminated by countless teams, and the efficiency is very low.

Both Welbeck and Rooney struggled to gain an advantage in the penalty area in front of Pepe, Kompany and Javi Martinez.

These days, the rib attack is the mainstream, and the efficiency of wing crosses is too low.

Played two counterattacks and only created one foul on the right side of the penalty area.

When Kompany came out to defend Ashley Young, he accidentally made a big move and tripped Manchester United's left midfielder. He was awarded a free kick in the frontcourt, but the angle was too wide and he could only play indirect cooperation. Courtois took the initiative to take the ball out of the air.

After taking off the ball, Courtois kept waving his hands, signaling the team to press up.

The Belgian goalkeeper quickly ran to the front of the penalty area, saw the timing, and threw the ball directly.

Toni Kroos stopped the ball in front of him with his foot, glanced ahead, and quickly sent a long pass over the top.

The sharpest German midfielder, but also the most valued by Guardiola, is his long pass.

Not to mention very accurate, the ball is fast, and the transfer is very deadly.

This kind of long pass is a bit like cavalry in the era of cold weapons, and airdrops in the era of hot weapons. It directly transfers the sharpest weapons to the opponent's weakest place, and smashes the opponent's defense line in one go.

This long pass from Toni Kroos is doing just that.

He deflected the ball directly behind the United defense, and Sudong sprinted forward as fast as he could. The ball landed just as he swung Ferdinand away, allowing him to stop the ball forward without adjustment.

Is this a coincidence?

No, for top passers, it's calculated.

It’s just that this kind of precise calculation has become their almost instinctive reaction. No matter what ball, what environment, or whom to pass to, as long as it is a teammate they are familiar with and have a tacit understanding, they will know how to pass, which foot to pass to, and which point.

So generally speaking, you need to interfere with these passers.

As long as there is interference, they cannot pass so accurately.

If the pass is not accurate, the player who receives the ball needs to adjust when he stops the ball.

The adjustment is tantamount to creating more time for the defensive players.

But it is a pity that Manchester United did not interfere with Toni Kroos in time, but let the German midfielder pass a long pass smoothly.

The ball also landed on Su Dong's step just right, causing him to stop directly in front of him.

"Single knife!!!!!!"

There was another exclamation from Old Trafford.

After Su Dong pierced through Manchester United's defense line like a sharp arrow, he quickly stopped the ball and waded into the penalty area.

Without hesitation, De Gea decisively abandoned the goal and rushed towards Su Dong, opening his arms as much as possible.

But just after Su Dong waded into the penalty area, he suddenly stopped suddenly and dunked the ball.

This was completely beyond De Gea's expectation. He had already calculated the distance between himself and Su Dong and the speed of each other. Su Dong's sudden stop disrupted his pace and plan.

When he adjusted again, Su Dong suddenly started and made a fake move, making a gesture to cut inward, but suddenly swung the ball to the left baseline.

De Gea couldn't distinguish Su Dong's actions and intentions. After being deceived for a while, when he realized it again, Su Dong had already opened a gap. He went again, accelerated, and rushed over from the left with the ball.

After passing the goalkeeper, Su Dong was unstoppable and easily pushed with his left foot.

The ball quickly rolled into Manchester United's goal, and when the football hit the net, Evans shoveled the ball from a shovel, but how could there be time?

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

"In 4 minutes, Manchester City made another victory, two to zero!"

"Su Dong scored twice!"

"God, his speed is really too fast. During the whole sprint, not even a Manchester United player could keep up with him. We can only watch him break through and score."

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If there is anyone who is happiest with Su Dong's goal, it is the head coach Guardiola.

After seeing Su Dong scoring two goals in a row, he was so excited that he jumped up on the spot, kept waving his fists, and almost rushed out of the coach's command area of ​​the visiting team. After being stopped by the staff, he still raised his hands and yelled.

He was so excited, so excited!

This time, the three-four-three style of play is adopted. In fact, there are many doubts within the team. After all, continuing to adopt four-three-three, although there are hidden dangers and weaknesses, it is, after all, a more familiar style of play for Manchester City, and the risk is relatively smaller.

But Guardiola didn't like this kind of security. He felt that he should take this opportunity to adopt a relatively more innovative tactic that caught opponents off guard.

Facing a team like Manchester United, playing three-four-three has a very big risk, and that is wing defense.

That was the case with Kompany's foul on Ashley Young just now.

Therefore, if Manchester City wants to play three-four-three well, not only must the defensive players do a good job of defending, but also the overall defense of the team, and more importantly, the possession of the ball in the midfield must be maintained.

As long as you lengthen your possession time long enough and compress Manchester United's possession time short enough, then Manchester United will not have so much time to create offensive opportunities on the wing, and the defensive pressure on Manchester City will be reduced to a minimum.

Conversely, if Manchester City's possession of the ball is frustrated and Manchester United has enough time to control the ball, they will continue to play quick counterattacks and attack Manchester City's wings in turn. Coupled with the incomplete formation, there will still be problems sooner or later.

Guardiola is well aware of the natural flaws of Three Four Three, but he still decided to do it.

Now, Su Dong's two goals ensured Manchester City's advantage and made him breathe a sigh of relief.

This is why, after Bayern Munich lost the Champions League semi-finals last season, Heynckes said that Bayern's fault tolerance rate has been reduced a lot.

With Su Dong's goals and deterrent power, the fault tolerance rate is naturally high, and it doesn't matter even if the head coach makes waves occasionally.

Joe Hart conceded so many goals last season, didn't Manchester City still win?
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In Manchester City's three-four-three formation, needless to say, there are three central defenders in the back line. Harvey Martinez is responsible for the delay, Pepe and Kompany are responsible for the attack, and the division of labor between the three players complements each other.

But Guardiola obviously wants to play more waves.

He arranged a small diamond-shaped position directly in the midfield, allowing Busquets to lag behind, David Silva and Toni Kroos stood on both sides, and Hazard served as the forward midfielder.

When the team is attacking with the ball, the entire formation is actually very flat, so players such as David Silva, Hazard, Toni Kroos, Di Maria and Sanchez often appear on the same line. Whoever seizes the opportunity will insert it.

These Manchester City players all have an obvious characteristic, that is, they play very well in a small area.

Needless to say, Di Maria and Sanchez are both typical South American players, with little skills. The key is that these two players have a strong ability to dribble and attack. They can be used as wingers, pass the ball and cut inside.

Guardiola said that Hazard is very similar to Messi, which is actually true at all.

The size, flexibility and playing characteristics are very similar.

So much so that Guardiola felt that putting him in the winger position was actually sacrificing his ability and talent.

Therefore, on weekdays, he began to try to cooperate with Hazard and Marcelo. To put it simply, let Hazard lean more in the middle and give up the side to Marcelo.

In fact, during his time in Lille, Hazard also played as a midfielder and performed very well.

But now, in Manchester City, in Guardiola's three-four-three tactics, Hazard played the role of the small diamond in the midfield.

It is conceivable that there are Di Maria and Sanchez on the two wings. These two players are very hardworking, hard-working players who can pass, lead and attack. The center is Hazard, David Silva, Toni Kroos and Busquets, plus a Su Dong who can suppress the opponent's defense.

In the game, Manchester City almost easily controlled the ball and crushed Manchester United.

The unlucky Red Devils lost two at the beginning of the game, and they didn't even think about counterattacking.

It's not that they didn't think about fighting back, but that they didn't have the effort.

When Manchester City directly pushes the possession area to the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester United, and when Manchester City's small-scale players cooperate with sneaky players, they fly gracefully in the core area of ​​Manchester United's defense, shuttle back and forth, slipping unnecessarily, so that Manchester United's defensive players can only stop.

"God, we originally thought that Barcelona's pass and control were good enough, but tonight's Manchester City showed us another set of pass and control that can't lose to Barcelona."

"Oh no, I even think that Manchester City's style of play is better than Barcelona's."

"In front of Manchester City's passing and possession style of play, it is difficult for Manchester United to even grab the ball. They can only be forced to defend strictly. But even so, Manchester City has frequently attacked the penalty area and created a threat."

"This is simply too scary!"

(End of this chapter)